* Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

* 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.

It is now the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.

It is now the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after International Commerce Centre, Two International Finance Centre and Central Plaza.

Central Plaza is the third tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong.

Hopewell Centre is a skyscraper in Hong Kong.

It is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong.

The most prominent examples include the Habib Bank Plaza, PRC Towers and the MCB Tower which is the tallest skyscraper in Pakistan.

Among the new buildings towers the Turning Torso, a spectacular twisting skyscraper, tall, the majority of which is residential.

* 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by and become the World's tallest highrise.

This area is home to the distinctive PPG Place Gothic glass skyscraper complex.

Willis Tower ( formerly named and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower ) is a 108-story, 1, 451-foot ( 442 m ) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

The skyscraper is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Chicago, and over one million people visit its observation deck each year.

There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper.

Fazlur Rahman Khan is regarded as the " Einstein of Structural Engineering " for his revolutionary work which remain fundamental to modern skyscraper construction.

The maximum height of structures has progressed historically with building methods and technologies and thus what is today considered a skyscraper is taller than before.

There is no clear definition of any difference between a tower block and a skyscraper though a building lower than about thirty storeys is not likely to be a skyscraper and a building with fifty or more storeys is certainly a skyscraper.

Foster + Partners submitted a plan for a 385 metre tall skyscraper, the London Millenium Tower, but its height was seen as excessive for London's skyline.

The term " skyscraper " was first applied to buildings of steel framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and St. Louis.

The structural definition of the word skyscraper was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s that had enabled construction of tall multi-storey buildings.

The Emporis Standards Committee defines a high-rise building as " a multi-storey structure between 35 – 100 meters tall, or a building of unknown height from 12 – 39 floors " and a skyscraper as " a multi-storey building whose architectural height is at least.

The John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1, 127-foot ( 344 m ) tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan.

The National Westminster Tower's status as the first skyscraper in the City was a coup for NatWest, but was extremely controversial at the time, as it was a major departure from the previous restrictions on tall buildings in London.

Currently, the population of Kawaguchi continues to increase, and many tall apartment buildings are being built around train stations, so Kawaguchi Station area looks like skyscraper.

The town has only one skyscraper, the 98m tall Portomaso Tower.

Promenade II is a tall skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta.

The GLG Grand building is a 186-meter ( 609-foot ) tall skyscraper in Midtown Atlanta.

Moshe Aviv Tower (), is a tall skyscraper located in the demarcated area of the bursa ( Israel Diamond Exchange ) on Jabotinsky Road in northern Ramat Gan, Israel.

One Worldwide Plaza is a 50-story, 1. 5 million square feet ( 139, 355 m² ), tall office skyscraper.

The building would have been the first skyscraper in Brooklyn to rise more than 60 stories, since the tallest completed building in the district is only 42 stories tall.

One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, serving as the headquarters of Barclays Bank.

Shun Hing Square (), also named " Diwang Buliding " () in Shenzhen, is a 384m ( 1, 260 ft ) tall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China.

Sullivan developed the shape of the tall steel skyscraper in late 19th Century Chicago at the very moment when technology, taste and economic forces converged violently and made it necessary to drop the established styles of the past.

The 13-storey, tall structure, known locally as " Sutyagin's skyscraper " ( Небоскрёб Сутягина ), was found to be in violation of Arkhangelsk building codes, and in 2008 the courts ordered the building to be demolished by February 1, 2009.

The building is considered by some to be the city's first skyscraper, with 12 stories and standing 218 ft ( 66m ) tall.

* Tour du Crédit Lyonnais, a tall skyscraper partly occupied by Radisson.

one encounters the question of whether or not the prototype of is a 6 feet tall man, or a 400 feet skyscraper

It consists of a tall office skyscraper and its 15-story parking garage.

The new building, known as the Tower at PNC Plaza, will be a 40-story, skyscraper approximately 600 ' tall at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street.

His real name is Leonard Doyle, Waxey's adopted black son who piloted a series of versatile, heavily armed robots of varying sizes ; the largest was as tall as a skyscraper and able to act as the team's transport.